"I might! Do they effects stack, if I take two or three can they heal bigger wounds? And Bar, how much is a bakran?"

"If there's no little wounds it'll help a big wound some. You can take as many as you want one after the other, fast as you can drink 'em."

One bakran is approximately equal to 11 rings.

"I'll take a potion. I'd take more if you have enough points for more."

"I can do two today... Come to think of it they probably weren't paying me what they're actually worth. Hmm. But I did already promise you that price. I'll give you one for six. I want... Ten for the second one. And I can do potions of other things too. I have a lot of black."

"What other potions can you make?"

"Sharper senses! Color-change potion, you paint it on something to magically dye it. Potion of Natural Language. Lets you talk to anyone like in here for an hour or two. Elemental Water maybe? It you pour a drop or two out of the vial it becomes a lot more water than it started as. I can do elemental fire and earth and air too but water's the really useful one."

"I could use sharper senses and translation! How many of those can you make? They use different points than the healing ones, right?"

"Sharp senses and translation both use white points! And turning anything into a potion uses black. I have twelve white and eighteen black, I can do a couple supersensories and a natural language on top of healing. Think those will sell okay too?"

"They might. I know I want them. Two each of sharp senses, translation and healing, that makes... Bar, can I get sixty bakrans?" He sets his rings down on the bar.

"Actually I can only manage one sharp senses or translation right now. I'll get most of my white back in a couple hours and do the others."

Bar can change currencies easy as pie, as always.

"Sure, I'm planning to still be here in a couple hours."

"I've got plenty to read until then."

Cute kid.

Valanda reads about education systems.

Nik comes back- And does a double take at the kid.

He makes his way over to Valanda quietly and asks, "...You talk to the kid yet?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Does he seem... Alright?"

"No but he has marketable skills and Milliways so at least he has options now."

"Well, that's good. Marketable skills? Unlike me..."

"You have marketable skills too. I'm not firing you."

"Nah. Meant, when I was that age. The most marketable skill I had was taking apart our radio to try and figure out how it worked."

"He says he makes potions. The way he describes it his magic's not very powerful so I guess I understand letting kids start doing it younger."

"Honestly Har's mages are kind of staggeringly powerful in a lot of ways."

"Yeah. We used to have two more continents."

Nico fails to pretend he wasn't listening in and flinches.

Nik chuckles at that. "The world is full of big things, little one."

Nico just shrugs, looking unnerved.